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Liberty is too important for bureaucratic bungling
Over the course of just a few days we have had all sorts of conflicting messages concerning the plan to…
The corona clampdown: are we just being silly over sniffles?
There has been a lot of confusion around COVID-19 statistics and what they means. The fundamental problem is that there…
Alexander Downer and Russiagate: a bigger picture?
Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — this time in different words: Alexander Downer, the Fredo…
The ABC has vanished up its own…
No! No! No! Not now. Things are bad enough already. It’s too early to start drinking. But no. The dumbed-down,…
Tackling coronavirus risks head on is the only way forward for business
Our major football codes are the canaries in the coal mine for hundreds of industries desperate to restart as soon…
Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull?
Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull? Contemporaries have had to suffer throughout their lives the intermittent…
Who are the real corona racists?
The threat of coronavirus has Australian officials inventing new and contradictory authoritarian laws daily — and they’re backed by the…
What’s going to happen to Generation Lockdown?
Imagine for a moment that you are a parent and someone knocks on your front door with a proposition. The…
There’s a ghost in my house
There’s a ghost in my house. Or there’s going to be. A miserable ghost. And you can also have one…
Tracking a pandemic: an unacceptable invasion of privacy
The federal government’s plan to use a voluntary tracking app to monitor our movements – in an attempt to stem…
Who owns WHO?
Australia is a nation of 9.2 million households — a nation that has been duped by a deceptive World Health…
Does the Morrison government have the skills to lead us out of the recession it has created?
The $320 billion in costs the Australian government has incurred to sustain and stimulate the economy in light of the…
We don’t let winter flu stop the nation. Why are we doing it now?
We are facing an existential threat to the nation and our way of life, not from the Chinese COVID-19 virus,…
Remember why we put something away for a rainy day?
Paul Keating famously proclaimed when we hit the wall back in 1991 that it was the recession Australia had to…
I, for one, welcome our new People’s Republic of ScoMo
Welcome to Socialism World, where everything is paid for. ‘Yeah, nah’, as we say here in the People’s Republic of…
ScoMo, Josh: without an exit strategy we face higher taxes, higher debt, a higher cost of living – and little hope
The $320 billion of fiscal and monetary measures in response to the coronavirus, however necessary, will impose a debilitating cost…
WHO’s to blame for the WHOhan flu
Donald Trump has halting America’s funding to the World Health Organisation. The US President has said: Today I’m instructing my…
The George Pell interview response: how dare leftie media think it’s the highest court in the land?
After all that he has endured – more than 400 days in jail for crimes he did not commit —…
How the government has failed risk management 101
Risk management is something that everyone thinks they understand until they actually do it. And make no mistake, this coronavirus…
The Party’s pandemic
If the world ever needed proof that the Chinese Communist Party is ethically bankrupt, paranoid and running a political system…
Bandit Bandt’s back to his bad old ways
Well, that didn’t last long. You’ll recall our tale of our Easter miracle, the email sent to Greens supporters by…
The Koronavirus Keystone Kops threaten our health and our liberty
In the space of just a few weeks, the rule of law in Australia has both triumphed in the High…
Be warned: the Twits are already going to Pell and back
Any journalist who says they would not have wanted the first exclusive post-prison with Cardinal George Pell after his release…
A corona communique to Pirate Pete and pals: how about we fix federation before trying a republic?
It was former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating who supposedly said ‘Never get between a Premier and a bag of…
Students are starting school online this week – only to face a Ruddy mess
Nobody could have predicted the demands of this year’s schooling transformation, but we could — indeed should — have been…
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